"The major factor accelerating the pathway to metabolic syndrome is overweight and obesity," senior author Dr. Charles H. Hennekens, a medicine professor at FAU, said in a news release. This measurement is increasingly being used as a marker for metabolic syndrome risk — even when excluding a person’s body mass index (BMI), a standard measure for body fat, Dr. "There are patients who have a normal body mass index yet are at high risk,” Sherling said. “These patients represent an important population for clinicians to screen for metabolic syndrome." FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWSTo reduce your risk of metabolic syndrome, the researchers advised aiming for a waistline of less than 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women.

Source: Fox News April 07, 2017 17:03 UTC